Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are ...

Here’s the good news: Most educators have gotten the message that K-5 students need to learn the foundational reading skills outlined in the common core and other college and career-ready standards: ...

Take care to fit phonics into each child's own learning journey, says early years consultant Marie Charlton. Despite the phonics programme's aim to empower young, would-be readers and writers, there ...

Every six-year-old will be tested on their ability to read words such as ‘cat’, ‘zoo’ and ‘pride’ as part of a return to traditional teaching. Schools minister Nick Gibb will today announce that every ...